Multiplex core for sets of paper rolls



E. J. HANSEN MULTIPLEX CORE FOR SETS OF PAPER ROLLS Filed Dec. 23, 1922A F T T Emrl =I-Hansen Patented Feb. 17, 1925 EMIL J. HANSEN, 0F GREENBAY, WISCONSIN.

MULTIPLEX CORE FOR SETS OF PAPER ROLLS.

Application filed December 23, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL J. HANSEN, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Green Bay, in the county of Brown and State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiplex Cores forSets of Paper Rolls; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to a multiplex core for sets of paper rolls.

In stacking rolls, such for instance as rolls of toilet paper, towelingand similar material, it is diflicult to provide a package which willprevent injury to the rolls and at the same time occupy a minimum amountof space.

This invention is designed to overcome the above noted diiiiculties andto provide a multiplex core for rolls whereby a plurality of rolls maybe held in axial alinement in a temporary manner so that they may bereadily separated when desired.

Further objects are to provide, as an article of manufacture, aplurality of rolls mounted upon hollow, axially alined, cardboard cores,so organized that the core may be separated and the rolls individuallyremoved without in any manner damaging the rolls, and to provide anorganization, such as outlined above, which will facilitate packing andshipping of the rolls.

Embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of one form of the inventionshowing two rolls in their associated positions.

Figure 2 is a corresponding View of a further form of the invention.

Figure 8 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure l is a section on the line i l oi Figure 2.

Figures 1 and 3 showing one form of the invention will first bedescribed. The rolls, which are chosen for illustration, are toiletSerial No. 608,686.

paper rolls, as indicated at 1 and 2, which are provided with permanenthollow cardboard cores 3 and 4%, respectively. These cores are held inaxial alinement by means of a smaller co-extensive hollow cardboard core5, which is slipped within the main cores 8 and l of the rolls andserves to hold such last mentioned cores in axial alinement temporarily,while permitting the ready removal of the individual rolls and cores. Aswill be seen from Figures 1 and 3, the core 5 is continuous, while thecores 3 and i are separated.

A further form of the invention is illustrated in Figures 2 and at. Inthis form the rolls 6 and 7 are provided with an integral continuouscore 8, while the rolls 6 and 7 are independent and of the sameformation as those previously described. However, the core 8, which ishollow and of cardboard, is weakened at the line oi? division betweenthe rolls 6 and 7 by scoring, by perforation, or in any suitable manner.As shown in the drawing, the core 8 is weakened by a line ofperforations 9 which may be elongated in contour, if desired, as shownby the drawings.

Obviously, a number of other methods of weakening the core may beemployed, and it is intended that the specific showing of the drawingand of the disclosure, generally, is to be interpreted as illustrativeonly and not limiting, and that the invention is to be limited only assettorth in the appended claim.

I claim An article of manufacture comprising a plurality of rolls ofpaper having a common hollow cardboard core, said core having weakenedportions between successive rolls.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand atGreen Bay, in the county of Brown and State of VVis consin.

EMIL J. HANSEN.

